Let me see, a few “gay” penguins....human homosexuality is perfectly natural.
Vertebrate mothers taking care of offspring....the Maternal Instinct is a myth.
Pure BS/myth being pushed by the Compost.
I am sooooo glad the Bezo Post has articles like this. Obviously, women should get abortions instead of having babies do they can only miss a minimal amount of time from their job at Amazon. A stable workforce is worthy of murder.
Try f’n with a newborn calf when its mom is nearby, then get back to me on your ‘myth’ delusion.
Because WaPo’s female readers are DC-centric, career-focused, leftist, low on the scale of normal female sensitivity and openness, often homosexual - WaPo needs to pander to them.
“The maternal instinct idea was written into scientific theory in the early part of the 20th century by religious men who had a stated interest in compelling White, well-off women to have more babies.”
My rabbit had seven babies. She built her nest the week before they were born.
She kept them hidden for a couple of weeks...she would go in the birthing box to feed them.
Then they came out and boy were they active little critters. Mama would feed them and lick them clean. Sometimes we would have to put her in another cage because she got tired.
My rabbit was brown, not white. And she wasn’t well off, she was a rabbit. I don’t know if she was particularly religious, she never said much of anything.
So who is following the “science”?
The father of one of my very best friends was gored to death by a mother cow when he got too close to her calf. He was in his early 80’s when he died and had been in the cattle business all his adult life.
My theory is that the women in our culture have been trained to be so self-centered and so selfish that this learned behavior overcomes their maternal instinct. That is the best way to explain abortion. What degree of selfishness is capable of murdering your completely innocent baby in your own womb? It is incomprehensible to me. . . .
You’ve got examples in the animal world where mothers will abandon their pups/cats/etc;
But the vast majority have a natural instinct to protect and nurture the offspring.
For it seemed to me that I could arrive at considerably more truth in the reasoning that each man makes concerning the matters which are important to him and in which events could punish him soon afterwards if he judged badly, than in the reasoning made by a man of letters in his study concerning speculations which produce no effect and which are of no consequence to him, except perhaps that from them he can augment his vanity, and all the more so, the further his speculations are from common sense, because he would have had to use that much more wit and artifice in the attempt to make them probable.
They’re calling this a myth so that the gay fathers can now be “maternal”.
My daughter and I were once out walking by a local pond and were suddenly “attacked” by a female duck, who was doing everything in her power to lead us away from where her little ducklings were. We got a good laugh out of it, but in the final analysis we knew that what the duck was doing was serious business that might very well have ended up getting her killed. A duck doesn’t consciously think of sacrificing itself for its offspring. It’s pure instinct. Without it, an advanced species can’t survive.
Well, I’m sure maternal instinct exists, probably in most females, but my personal experience tells me it does not exist in all females. My own mother abandoned me when I was about 10 months old. She left my father and me and I never heard from her again. There are plenty of cases where women kill their own kids, or abuse them, or abandon them as mine did.
Instincts in humans are always subordinate to free will, and to our self-aware but fallen human nature. This is why the natural impulse of a woman to care for her child can be overridden and the child can be aborted or neglected after birth.
Every moment in the daily routine isn’t particularly a treasured gem for even the most devoted of mothers. Ms. Conaboy’s willingness to go through the huge inconvenience of nursing her baby indicates a maternal instinct, at least on the practical level. She might not be feeling anything because she’s too busy trying to “have it all” at the same time.
Have a kid author and you’ll find out, prune.
ComPo:
Science? What “science”?
If the writer wants to find out if maternal instinct is real or a myth, I suggest that she try to pick up a grizzly bear cub in the wild, and see whether or not the cub’s mother tries to protect it.
Humans are the subject here and according to past research on the subject, yes it’s a myth. That is maternal instinct that kicks in at birth. It’s pretty clear humans don’t have that.
Infanticide is pretty common human behavior both now and in the past.
Anyone who has ever cared for a baby knows that there are strong instincts to protect them. Moms will automatically protect their babies with violence if need be...
Deny gender, deny a mother's love, deny God? This is madness.
This story mentions the woman pumping milk in a closet, some pumps have a feature to record your baby's sounds, crying , laughing, gurgling.. you get the idea.. This makes it much easier to achieve letdown. yup, no instinct in evidence here! For some women the sound of any baby crying will cause a letdown.
Notice the Record/Play button on this Hospital-Grade pump... just the sound of your baby can cause a milk letdown.
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